Step Back here I come

In this series I will divulge exactly how my steemposts payout have gone in the past week. I plan to increase the my earning through posting content and using bidbots to increase the payout. I found that I was not able to find straight forward information about this information therefore I decided there was an opportunity for me to post about it myself.
I am hoping to post at least once a week so this will be a follow up blog that is consistent and divulges every detail you would want to know about how to get ahead by posting content and buying votes on that content. Full Disclosure: I am no expert. I have had 2 posts on Steemit thus far and my first had a negative return on investment but my second barely made a possitive ROI. So I am no expert. I am just exploring this for myself but I am being open and honest about it because I feel there are more questions than answers.

Follow me if you will down my Steemit journey…. Who knows you may learn something useful. I will try and share the rewards I get with the community and my followers. So go ahead and follow me, engage with me and my community.

So on my last post

my intro post https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@mulletwang/hey-steemit-long-time-lurker-first-time-poster-10-of-post-to-random-minnow#comments, I spend just under 45 SBD on bids and received rewards of 23 SBD & 25 SP. Total of 48 return on 45 investment (since SBD = SP). Not terrible, at least I didn’t lose this time. For the first time on Steemit I feel like I am finally getting somewhere and I want to share it with those who supported me. I chose 3, oh scratch that, 2 winners to share 10% of the profits of my last post.

Why only 2?

Because when I went to verify that all the winners upvoted the content I noticed that one did not. That user was excluded. I didn’t even ask or check if any of the winners followed me but the minimum threshold of engagement being up/down vote I think is more than fair.

And the Winners are….

@alexstacy & @cocoland I felt both of you engaged sufficiently in the comment discussion to earn yourselves a gift.
2 Shares and been purchased for each of you in the Steem Basic Income Project.
This will provide you with upvotes on your posts and comments.

See link for Overview

https://steemit.com/basicincome/@steembasicincome/steem-basic-income-a-complete-overview

What Matters

So this is what matter about last week I “invested” ~45. I made ~48 a week later and I gained 35 followers along the way.
Pretty happy about how this worked out and going forward I am want to invest more time in having a much better format, photo or two and some more engaging contests... So please don't judge me too harshly.

I have a question if anyone in the community could answer it I might reward them, and maybe even a random minnow or two. Why would a post payout's value decrease over time? Is this normal? Why did the post say $75 it said was paying out 62 then I got 48? I legitimately am curious about all this and plan to the bottom of it.